DramaRomance
Wide Sargasso Sea
"Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys' steamy prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre"
User Score15 votes
56%5.6/10
Release2006→
Runtime1H 24M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
Synopsis
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
Principal Cast8
Rafe Spall
Edward Rochester
Rebecca Hall
Antoinette Cosway
Nina Sosanya
Christophine
Victoria Hamilton
Aunt Cora
Lorraine Burroughs
Amelie
Alex Robertson
Richard Mason
Karen Meagher
Grace Poole
Fraser Ayres
Daniel
Media5
Backdrops
Posters
Director
Brendan Maher
Director →
Box Office
Budget$2M
Keywords
motherbased on novel or bookenglandinsanityjamaicaimprisonmentprequelweddingmadnessattic
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Countries:United Kingdom
Production:BBC Cymru WalesKudos